The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-19

seem to take the same interest in pretty girls
and fair young maidens he did just after his
marriage. Those who have watched him lately
at the receptions say that, while he still has
cordial greeting for all, yet there lacks that
something he used to thrust into the hand
shaking of newly married couple"
IT is said that the Archduke John, of Austria,
has for some time been living in London under
strict incognito. Recently he wished to join the
Jockey Club without breaking the incognito. and
two eminent members of the club, acting as his
sponsors. asked the stewards to admit "a gem
tleman of exalted rank without compelling him
to disclose his real name. The application was
refused, and the Archduke is still outside the
club
SENATOR EDIUNDs and his daughter ride
horseback every afternoon through the country
lanes about Washington. The Senator is not
only good rider, but he is good judge of horse
flesh well It is said that on the day when
his friends were trying t0 get him the presiden-
tial nomination at Chicago he took early train
from Washington and went into the mountain
country of Virginia to buy horse. 1t was
good animal, and he rides Ii to this day.
PROFESSOR REDoaf, the eminent German by
glenlst, declared in recent lecture that the
nervousness of women is generally owing to two
defects-anamia. caused by the silly notion that
a hearty appetite is unfeminine. and fresh air
starvation, accompanied by lack of exercise.
To their fondness for fresh air, their open win
dows at night and their constant exercise he at
1.-The beauty of German women, he says, Lies
in their face, with its changing and amiable
preston. The beauty of the English lies in
their whole body and in their health. German
women. he adds, martyrs to unnatural
state of civilization and if they would only i1ni-
tate the English, hysteria would diminish in
frequency.
A VIENNA paper relates the following story
concerning the German Crown Prince: 1.-THE
Prince esteems his physician DIR. Mackenzie
very highly, and the Doctors daughter is an in
innate friend of the Princess Margaret. One
day at Baveno, the Crown Prince heard the two
young ladies discussing the relative beauty of
German and English girls Miss Mackenzie po-
htely insisting that the Germans We're prettier
while the Princess gave she preference to the
English. Whereupon tie Crown Prince broke
his enforced silence and said that In his opinion
English girls would be quite as pretty as the
Germans if it were not for their high, bare fore
heads, which gave them a too serious masculine
appearance, and he spoke approvlngly of the
fashion of wearing bangs. The next morning
Miss Mackenzie appeared with bangs.
ONE day last week lady student of Cornell
University discovered that her name was incor
rectly given in the list of students, and FASTENED
to the registrar S off ce to have the error cor
rected Are you engaged just now!" the
first question asked the Registrar, in blissful
ignorance of the lady's mission, and whose mind
channels. mo, indeed' replied the gallant of
fcial with some little emphasis his face the
pleasant anticipations of the approaching leap
year. well. then I should like to change my
NAME" said the fair visitor. 'Oh, you would!'
gasped the young man, his countenance radiant
beyond all expression. And then the young
lady undertook to explain matters more in de-
TAIL much to the discontinue of the assistant
The story got out, and now there Is hi larlty III
all the college circles.
WHILE in Perthshire recently Queen Victoria
requested an old Highland laird to visit her, and
when he did very graciously received him.
thanked him for coming, and then explained
why she wished to see him. II should like to
know" she said, 'the exact spot where the Pre-
tender landed, and" She allowed to
proceed no further. Instantly the old chief laid
his hand upon her shoulder, saying, He was
pretender. ma'am he was our King" Il beg
your pardon said the Queen, kindly: II ought
not to have used that word. should have said
Prince Charles Edward" Then, by way of
hulnoring the gruff old Jacobite, she added.
''You know that l. too have Stuart blood in my
veins" Yes, know it" was the reply. land
were it not for that you would not be where you
are" This plain speaking. which rather startled
her retinue, did not displease the Queen. On
the contrary, she was amused at it, and seemed
to like it, and it reused her interest in her I'M
courtly- hammered subject. and her way of tax
ing it went to his heart, and unbent and SOFT
ened his stern spirit They talked long together
and they parted like old friends. On the Queens
return to the castle where she staying, she
said to her host: Il have just met one of the
most honest men in my realm"